The Ship: Single Player

This game used to be fun as heck....almost 20 years ago now. I'd still recommend it to the kiddos looking to check out what we used to play on steam legacy software.

flawed 2-4 hours campaign, techichal limitions

Good Game

So this is an interesting one, and writing a review for a game that has probably been mostly forgotten seems maybe meaningless, but i think its still worth a shout out.

It's a fun game. This is specifically for the single player so I will keep the majority of my thoughts on that part of the game.

It's a game where you are a passenger on a ship in the 40's/50's who's been tasked with your fellow ship to kill one person at random, while one other shipmate hunts you. The goal, to kill and not be killed. There are guards who will catch you with weapons and lock you in the brig, making you an easy target, there are traps, plenty of different weapons, and you will constantly be looking over your shoulder.

This is a game that was designed to be multiplayer, and the single player campaign is defiantly not what came first. However, its still fun and exciting and can be surprisingly challenging. Exploring the ship while trying to find a way to escape is coll, but it is a little linear. It's not a long game by any measure, but it is great way to learn how the whole thing works and how the developers vision of a new style of multiplayer game works. It's sad it never caught on and I imagine if this had came out around the same time as "Among Us," it would have been a smash hit.

It's worth a play and i think there are still working multiplayer servers and lots of modded content as well.

If you can't find a server with people, or just want to practice, this is the game for you. Just be sure to buy this with the MP version as well. Happy hunting!

This was a fun experience :D sometimes infuriating (when having to restart a checkpoint and tending to the food/sleep/etc. cravings every time), but otherwise I liked it :> glad I have completed it.

Pretty fun story! Even better with friends/siblings! Easy to pickup and understand

This is a middle schooler's, who's been exposed to and binges Monty python, attempt at a story line. Just no. A hard no for being trash at trying to tell a story.

As Others Have Said, This Really Only Serves as a Tutorial for the Now-Empty Multiplayer Component

LockeProposal's Big Day Out

The Ship is a multiplayer game and makes no sense as a single player game. The missions are repetitive and dull. Enemies with guns will one shot you, sending you back to the beginning of your current mission. Do yourself a favor and skip this.

I have mixed feelings about this game. My recommendation is, first of all: buy it on sale (and a big discount), otherwise, it's not worth it.

The premise for the multiplayer is great. You think it will be similar in single player mode, as usual. But nooooo! The 'hunt or be hunted' goes about 10 minutes in SP, and then it's about doing small missions for money. It's interesting that they throw a 'human needs simulator' into the mix, so you have to use the bathroom, eat, read and talk to people from time to time while you're doing missions. Other than that, the story could be way better and longer.

And you can get stuck on doors. Which sucks! Also, I hate not being able to save whenever the hell I want. The game froze once and I went back two missions.

Once again, buy it on sale. If, like me, you don't like multiplayer, it's a game to buy cheap and finish fast. Funny at times, different feel, but too short.

So, i will make it the shortest as possible, in this game you are in a luxurious ship, but now you have to survive from the other passengers, becuse you are part of Mr. X's plan. Now the good parts and the bad ones:

GOOD [h1]

Creative and unique gameplay that doesn't get old. Such an amazing game, too bad it lacks online presence. Still, get it and play it with friends.

This is not a particularly intricate game, so I'll keep this review short.

I recommend this game with caveats. I got it as a package deal, to include the tutorial, single-player mode, and the multiplayer version. All three are separate games, which doesn't make any sense to me. The game as a whole is simple enough to teach a newbie to PC games how to actually play a game that isn't just a bunch of shooting or hacking at cannon fodder and the occasional oh-so-mega-awesome boss that doesn't actually seem to lead anyone. Some folks may even appreciate the dark humor that the game wants to offer, and probably did on at least an appreciable level back in the mid-00s. The biggest issue for me is that the game is a little dated. I don't normally complain about such things, as long as the gameplay is good. The gameplay is adequate, but you'll probably find yourself playing something else after a while. Still, I'm going to try to finish the single-player mode to see what happens.

Now, I'll give my opinion of each game mode.

The tutorial is not particularly helpful; I learned some things, but I learned more from just playing the game itself. As long as you pay attention to the Needs that pop up, and make sure to take care of them when you need to, you'll be OK on that part. Also, pay attention to what the controls do, and perhaps take time to customize them to resemble a game you've recently played a lot; they won't match perfectly, but it'll make things easier. Finally, pay close attention to how to set a quick item; this will be critical to completing tasks and not getting caught.

Single-player is somewhat interesting, but the ship is very small--more like a yacht--and devoid of the usual cruise ship life. At least, that's how I see it--I've never actually been on a cruise ship, but it seems as if three or four people wandering randomly around with no apparent purpose isn't enough to actually justify a cruise leaving port. The layout is a bit odd to me, too. Then again, it's a game, not a real cruise. It isn't hard to learn where everything is. So far, the story has basically shown itself to be something akin to a homicidal scavenger hunt.

That leaves multiplayer mode. Unfortunately, I'm about twelve years too late to actually try that one out. I think I was the only one in the whole world to actually fire up the multiplayer mode yesterday. That said, I think I can see how it would go based on the single-player mode. It's a bit like an inside-out game of Clue, the board game. Instead of figuring out who killed whom with what and where, you have to figure out who you're supposed to kill, find something to do it with, and figure out where and when to do it, all while someone else is trying to find YOU to do the same thing. The person you're hunting, and the person hunting you, are not normally the same. I didn't see anything that would stop a player from killing everybody, just to be sure, except for the possibility of being caught by guards. That's where the multiplayer version probably breaks down. Again, though, since I couldn't play that version, I wouldn't know for sure.

The idea behind this game is cool, though, and I'd definitely give a remake or similar game a try. For that reason alone, I'd recommend people try this game, just to get a taste of things.

I picked up this game after reading funny reviews about it.

Now I get to write one of my own

>Objective: Rough up the Bank Manager a bit to make him give you the vault code
>Easy.jpg
>Brought out my 'cutthroat razor'
>"I'll just slash him a bit"
>Walk up to him
>He shouts "You're not meant to be in here!"
>Intend to cut, accidentally hit button to throw weapon
>Razor flies into the man's face at 10000mph
>Instakilled, ragdolls into the walls like a bouncy ball
>ShitwhatdoIdoIkilledhimnowIcan'tgetthecodefromhim.png
>Pick up razor
>Objective Complete
>Somehow managed to get the code in the 0.1 milliseconds between him nearly calling security and me launching a razor into his skull
>Murder = 'rough him up' = 100% success

You should get this game it's fun

The single player is a stand alone game which is based on the original multiplayer retired game "The Ship: Murder Party".
It has all the elements of the original game except that instead of taking part in the Murder Party (hunting and being hunted) you're making your way through to escape the ship by completing tasks which are part of a pre-defined story line. The story line is not long, I finished it in 3 hours first time, and in 1 hour the second time. The gameplay is lovely though! I highly recommend you playing this single player version. For me it's something between Postal 2 and GTA: Vice City but with it's own unique charm. Postal because you can do crazy things here, some are pretty violent, also you get to do routine stuff like eating, drinking, going to the bathroom etc. GTA because well, you have certain tasks to complete in order to progress towards your character's goals, like get a poison and inject it in someone, guard an ambassador, get in prison and kill someone, etc. In short, the gameplay is very unique, it grabbed me from the beginning and I even finished the storyline twice so that's how charming this game is. A must play in my opinion.

This game is a gem in the budget gaming community. It's mechanics are well-executed, it's gamemodes are unique and at times hilarious, and you can play its multiplayer mode offline with AI and still have it be fun—unlike a lot of games.

This is pretty much like the ship except it's singleplayer. It has an entire entertaining (and funny) campaign where you have to do all of these jobs and kill people and drug people and stuff.

5.2/10 - Great if it wasn't so Tomagotchi

Good story, not super original though. Basically, you are taken aboard a ship where you and others must kill each other for survival. Last person standing gets a ticket off the boat.

The real downside for me is the "Tomagotchi" element. You have to feed, sleep, poop, entertain etc.. all while hunting down your marks.

I would love to play this with just the story and the murders. Lower marks for too much work.

Worth $3. More if you like to feed and poop things.

Accidently Reviewed

A fun game where you basiclly become a muderer on a ship XD you will do missions for people to help gain cash for a ticket off the ship. Lots of fun melee weps and guns. The ship single mode is, short sadly (I think only 10 missions).

Gameplay is simple and makes it easy to pick up and play.
Graphics are dated but they're not bad, nothing fancy.

If you play on hard mode be warned you will get your ass handed to ya XD

6/10

Well, ok... I buyed single player when it was on sale just to watch how the game was.

...you know, when a dlc or second version or whatever of a game is released, sometimes it is impossible to run it without the original game, and Steam clearly say it on the game page.

...not in this case. Single player doesn't work without the original The Ship multiplayer, but the two games are selled separately and nobody warns you.

This is unaccettable.

0/10

By the time I finally got around the buying "The Ship", its community had moved on. Great idea, but it's no fun playing with bots.